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dempsters

n. (plural of dempster English)

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Dempsters

Founded in 1878 by Charles B. Dempster in Beatrice, Nebraska, the Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company was established to design and produce windmills, hand pumps, water well products and agricultural equipment. The anticipated market included families headed west to begin a new life on homestead land (see Homestead Acts.) At its high point in 1918 the company had 500 employees.

In 1960 Dempsters was purchased by Warren Buffett then sold in 1963 to a group of investors and its name changed to Dempster Industries Incorporated. In 1985 the company became privately owned with its purchase by Don Clark. In the summer of 2013 Ryan Mitchell and his company purchased the company assets with operations in Beatrice under Dempsters LLC. Long known for its windmills, pumps and associated equipment, the company now focuses on manufacturing and distributing recycling trailers as well as agricultural spreaders.

Usage examples of "dempsters".

I stepped briskly - not running, but not dawdling - in front of the Dempsters just as Percy threw, and the snowball hit Mrs.

I pined and wasted to some extent, and my mother was not so taken up with the Dempsters that she failed to dose me regularly with cod-liver oil.

Consequently, as they became, in a sense, charges of my family, my jobs for the Dempsters grew.

Some of the oddity and loneliness of the Dempsters was beginning to rub off on me.

She had shown also that she knew that I was as concerned about the Dempsters, perhaps, as herself.

It was Cece, with some of his crowd, and the Harper boys (who ought to have known better) who organized the shivaree when the Dempsters moved.

George Alcott, who owned the sawmill, offered Dempster a place as a bookkeeper and timekeeper at twelve dollars a week, which was not a bad wage for the work and in fact made the Dempsters slightly better off than they had been, for there was no church tithe expected out of it.

I soon found out that she knew nothing of what was going on in the world because the Dempsters took no newspaper.

She couldn't do anything for the Dempsters publicly, of course, but she sent you to look after them.

In spite of her appearance, and the mistrust of her I felt deep within me, she was a woman who could draw out confidences, and I heard myself rattling on about Deptford, and the Dempsters, and Paul's premature birth, though I did not tell all I knew of that.

Yes there we were The Dempsters, a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to the whole village of Deptford.